TNAG-1726-FCO40-2439-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 59

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Sir, if we need already so much time as six years

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to enable the indirectly elected Members to adjust-

with the appointed Members, who after all must go

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then how much more time do we need to.

bevry allow the directly elected Members, who are treated to be like wild animals by some Members in this this House of this Council so that they could adjust with the appointed Members and the indirectly elected Members ? Surely it is a bad argument.

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Again, let me remind Honourable

Members of what our Senior Member said on the 15th

July 1987, during the Green Paper debate. houster 'Now, of course, we could say no further change

for 1988. But in the long run, 'no change' is

not an option because the Joint Declaration has

committed us to the greatest change of all; the legislature of the SAR is to be constituted by elections whereas this Council is at present only partly elected.

The longer we postpone further change, the greater

will be the pressure for it and the shorter the 25 time available to see it smoothly introduced.

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I entirely agreed

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Sir, I have endeavoured, ad nauseam

perhaps, in the view of some Members, to deal with

every reason advanced in the White Paper for not introducing direct elections this year. And I hope

I have demonstrated that none of them is a valid

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Miss Lydia Dunn said yesterday